Ender Tank Limitations?

[Zen300]

I know there are limitations to the Ender Tanks. And I currently have steam power pumped around via Ender Tanks for power. So my main question is as follows;

Do Ender tanks have a limit on the amount they can pull in?
I currently have 2 attached to my 18HP boiler, and the one on the top has 4 fluiducts attached to it for input. If I took the ones linking into the second Ender Tank and attached them into the one on top, would I see no issues with steam transport? Would I still get the same amount of steam flowing into the Ender Tank as I do now with 2 Tanks on the Boiler on the same frequency?

I ask because if that works, then I want to redisgn the ducts once my Quarry runs its course and put a single Ender Tank in the dead center of the room surrounded with ducts bringing Steam from all the Boilers I setup and using a single Ender Tank instead of a tank on each Boiler.

 

[rhn]

AFAIK there is no limitation on any tanks throughput. Its the liquiducts/pipes connecting to it that are limited.

http://feed-the-beast.wikia.com/wiki/Steam_Boiler#Setup
Here you will see the different throughput limitations of the different pipes/ducts handling steam.
Hereby a tank is only limited by the number of faces the block has(6) since you can put a duct/pipe on every side.

 

[MigukNamja]

AFAIK there is no limitation on any tanks throughput. Its the liquiducts/pipes connecting to it that are limited.

http://feed-the-beast.wikia.com/wiki/Steam_Boiler#Setup
Here you will see the different throughput limitations of the different pipes/ducts handling steam.
Hereby a tank is only limited by the number of faces the block has(6) since you can put a duct/pipe on every side.

Yes, the Ender Tanks themselves have no throughput limit AFAIK, but the interface connecting to them often does.

...Steam from all the Boilers I setup and using a single Ender Tank instead of a tank on each Boiler.

You will almost certainly hit pipe interface limits, even if you use Fluiducts. There are (only) *6 sides to an Ender Tank and you will easily exceed the steam throughput limit for each fluiduct interface to the Ender Tank.

Note you can use multiple Ender Tanks of the same color scheme. I personally would recommend 1 Ender Tank per boiler and slap it right on the boiler. You can use the same color code for each Ender Tank. They share the same buffer.

On the other end, to get all that lovely steam out, you will probably again need multiple Ender Tanks with as many pipes per tank as you spare (6 max.). The limit again will be each socket/interface of the pipe (fluiduct) to the Ender Tank, not the Ender Tank itself.

As for pipes, I highly recommend fluiducts. While there are per-interface/per-socket interface limits, there are no system limits. The same cannot be said for Buildcraft waterproof pipes, for instance. Their throughput is terrible.

*There might be a Thaumic Tinkerer or other mod block that expands the number of sides for a block

 

[Zen300]

I actually feel like Ender Tanks only have 4 inputs as the tank I have on top of my boiler did not get any input till I added pipes attached to it. It seems like the top and bottom have no input possibility.

Though it is good to know that I can just hook up a lot of fluiducts to a single tank for each boiler and be good to go.

 

[MigukNamja]

I actually feel like Ender Tanks only have 4 inputs as the tank I have on top of my boiler did not get any input till I added pipes attached to it. It seems like the top and bottom have no input possibility.

Though it is good to know that I can just hook up a lot of fluiducts to a single tank for each boiler and be good to go.

You may have to pipe RC boiler steam into an Ender Tank. In other words, the Ender Tank may not pull from the boiler and/or the boiler may not push into the Ender Tank. The pipes might be needed to assist with that.

However, I use Ender Tanks beneath RC Steel Tanks all the time, so I know they can be input into from the top. My standard tank room setup has 1 Ender Tank on top of each tank and 1 on bottom. No pipes needed.

I also input into the bottom of Ender Tanks all the time. I have on setup along my line of Stills to take the Ethanol they put out. The Ender Tank is on top of a TE3 fluiduct.

 

[Zen300]

Hmm come to think of it... It may have been a personal derp, I was expecting steam when the boiler was below 100 and not producing steam. I am not sure was a few days ago by now.